Underrepresented Groups Report

llinois ranks far below the most-educated U.S. states in educational attainment. A wide and stubborn achievement gap exists leaving minorities and low-income persons with far lower levels of educational attainment. Illinois needs to increase educational attainment to compete in the modern economy by matching the best-performing states. We can do this by increasing the success of students at each stage of the P-20 education pipeline to eliminate achievement gaps by race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, and disability.